Calling All Girardians

This story (and the broader phenomena it represents which would include everything from the explosion of reality TV to Facebook) illustrates what appears to be fertile new ground for Girardian inquiry into the new forms of mimetic desire and scapegoating that are emerging in our culture of technologically enhanced voyeurism.

Quite a treat, when, in one story, one can combine the totalizing impulses of the surveillance state, the anti-humanist vitriol of animal “rights” activists, the indulgence of public spectacle, and an appeal innocence-by-victimhood. Any other modern pathologies in there that I missed?